‘URGH! A Music War’ going on Revolutions Per Movie podcast tour; East Coast dates with Gang of Four’s Hugo Burnham

Cult classic 1981 concert film URGH! A Music War, which features amazing live performances from across the punk, post-punk, and New Wave scenes, is going on tour thanks to great podcast Revolutions Per Movie. URGH! includes unforgettable performances by Devo, The Police, The Go-Gos, XTC, Gang of Four, The Cramps, OMD, X, Gary Numan, Dead Kennedys, Klaus Nomi, Oingo Boingo, Wall of Voodoo and many more, and a chance to see it on the big screen, with Q&As afterwards, is pretty cool.

The film is a bit of an ur(gh)-text for Revolutions Per Movie — which is hosted by Chris Slusarenko who plays in Eyelids, spent time in Guided By Voices, and owned Portland’s much-missed Clinton Street Video — with dozens of episodes dedicated to the doc, featuring his fellow Professor of URGH, Chaki, and many of the musicians featured in it as guests. They probably even know how to correctly pronounce Splodgenessabounds.

The tour will have the Professors Of Urgh URGH! offering up a live presentation about the film at every screening. West Coast Dates happen in August with different special guests depending on the city (many still TBA); East Coast dates are in October, and the Boston and NYC stops will be with Gang of Four drummer Hugo Burnham.

That NYC screening is at Nitehawk Prospect Park on 10/12 (35mm print!) and there’s also a Jersey City screening at WFMU Monty Hall on 10/14 which is with WFMU’s Evan “Funk” Davies as special guest. Tickets will be on sale soon.

You can watch the trailer for URGH!, and check out all tour dates for the film via the film’s poster below.